Partido Trabalhista Timor (PTT), on Friday, submitted its registration application with the Independent Electoral Commission. The…

Jakarta – Members of the Anti-Communist Coalition (AAK) made visits to a number of major bookstores here on Saturday, but the alliance did not act…

Jakarta – A senior Indonesian military commander yesterday urged troops to remain loyal to the nation and not to any individual after…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's President Wahid is refusing to drop plans to sack senior generals, declare martial law and disband…

Muchus Budi Rahayu/HD, Jakarta – In solo, Central Java, an action to commemorate three years of the Suharto's stepping down on May 21, 1998 were…

Jakarta – Security forces in Irian Jaya arrested 16 members of a Papuan separatist movement after an armed clash which injured five people, local…

Jakarta – Thousands of protesters in Indonesia's Sulawesi province forced a two-hour cut in electricity and telephone services to…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Taufik Kiemas, the wealthy businessman husband of Megawati Sukarnoputri, sent a recent message to Abdurrahman Wahid at…

Jakarta – Social and religious leaders in a district of the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan have agreed to the conditional…

Jakarta - City Police detectives questioned a coordinator of the Solidarity for Peace in East Timor (Solidamor), a non-governmental…

Jakarta – The Indonesian navy has launched a special operation to cut off the distribution of guns and munitions from Thailand to the…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Recession-hit, lower-income Indonesians are turning to instant noodles instead of rice as a key source of nourishment,…

Jakarta – Police in Jakarta have shot dead 36 thugs and nabbed 682 others across the city in a month-long anti-hoodlum campaign, an official has…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court will examine demands that the Golkar party of former president Suharto be disbanded because of corruption and…

Mark Dodd, Dili – In a breakthrough for relations between East Timor and its former ruler, Jakarta has finally agreed to settle the…

Jakarta – An Indonesian military leader yesterday in Kupang, West Nusa Tenggara (NTT), expressed doubt that 95% of the East Timorese refugees in…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Thursday submitted to the Attorney General's Office the names of 25 Irian Jaya…

Vaudine England – Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri may be readying herself to assume the presidency, but she faces daunting obstacles before…

Vaudine England – Days before a threatened sweep by radical Islamic groups against book stores alleged to be selling communist books, support for…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Frustrated with the lack of recovery and stability at home, many Indonesian businessmen are scouting for opportunities and…

The withdrawal of Indonesian rupiahs from Timor Lorosae was a good step because it would prevent confusion in currency usage in the…

Jakarta – Nearly 1,000 protesters yesterday staged a demonstration at the house of Ginandjar Kartasasmita a former minister declared a suspect in…

Virginia Marsh and Tom Mccawley – Australia and East Timor are edging towards agreement on a critical new treaty to govern the Timor Gap, paving…

Jakarta – Under the threat of massive labor rallies, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Al-Hilal Hamdi decided on Wednesday to delay for 14-…

Banda Aceh – Clashes on Tuesday between Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist rebels and security forces in the restive province of Aceh have left…

Jakarta – Indonesia needs around US$28.45 billion in new investment over the next 10 years to stave off a power crisis which has begun to hit some…

Jakarta – Top Indonesian Military (TNI) brass have again warned that they would reject any top level reshuffle in the military command if it was…

Mark Davis – In September 1999, the Australian Army stepped into the carnage of East Timor as the lead contributor in the international force…

The Concelho Nacional da Recistencia Timorense/Congresso Nasional (CNRT/CN) will be dissolved in early June 2001. Ex-members of CNRT…

Seth Mydans, Jakarta – A strange red banner hangs over the gate of one of the middle-class villas on a quiet street in central Jakarta: "Am I…

Nuriddin Lazuardi/HD, Jakarta – A political observer Kusnanto Anggoro from Central Strategy for International Studies (CSIS) believes that several…

Jonathan Thatcher, Balibo – Maria Maia, her mouth stained scarlet from the juice of the betel nuts she chews, bursts out laughing as she fingers…

Robert Go, Batam – Foreign investors yesterday signalled to the Indonesian government that they wanted a more concrete reform process in place…

Max Lane – While efforts by the state to mount a lawsuit against Indonesia's former dictator collapsed ignominiously last year, the PRD has…

Jakarta – At least 147 military personnel from Wirabuana Military Command in Sulawesi have been arrested by the local military police when they…

Washington – The United States is carefully watching President Abdurrahman Wahid's battle against impeachment in "troubled" Indonesia…

London – A respected think-tank says Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri will replace President Abdurrahman Wahid by legal means this…

Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Human rights, not military ties, would be the key to a new relationship with Indonesia under a Labor government,…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Last week's assassination of Aceh's former vice-governor illustrates just how dangerous taking a neutral stance is in…

Jakarta – Indonesian police have ransacked a Jakarta office of an Acehnese group linked to a fatal explosion here as the military picked up an…

Jakarta – A rally by students demanding the dissolution of the former ruling Golkar Party turned violent on Monday when demonstrators clashed with…

Jakarta – About 100 demonstrators from the Freedom of Speech and Thought Alliance (AKBB) held a rally at Police Headquarters today. The action was…

Agence France Presse in Jayapura – The subversion trials of five high-profile independence leaders from the remote Indonesian province of Irian…

Vaudine England – With two weeks left before Parliament decides on possible impeachment moves against President Abdurrahman Wahid, the decibel…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Iced coconut juice seller Budiman, 43, set down his 30-kg gear wearily and fanned himself with a folded tabloid newspaper…

Banda Aceh – Mobile Brigade Police (Brimob) personnel have been combing villages in Pidie regency, Aceh, over the past two days, in what is…

Vaudine England – Theys Eluay is a loud man, in both his wardrobe and choice of political rhetoric. As a self-styled leader of the independence…

Jakarta – The management of Shangri-La Hotel has accepted the decision of the government-sanctioned Central Committee for the Settlement of Labor…

Chris McCall, Dili – Fed up with Indonesia's feeble attempts at administering justice to accused war criminals, the families of East Timor's dead…

Mark Dodd, Dili – The plight of a 15-year-old East Timorese girl kept as a sex slave for more than 18 months in a militia-controlled refugee camp…